Do not bow down to any idol or worship it, for I am the LORD your God and I tolerate no rivals. I bring punishment on those who hate me and on their descendants down to the third and fourth generation.

The people of Judah sinned against the LORD and did more to arouse his anger against them than all their ancestors had done.

This is a message about Nineveh, the account of a vision seen by Nahum, who was from Elkosh.

The LORD God tolerates no rivals; he punishes those who oppose him. In his anger he pays them back.

Or do we want to make the Lord jealous? Do we think that we are stronger than he?

Burn their idols. Do not desire the silver or gold that is on them, and do not take it for yourselves. If you do, that will be fatal, because the LORD hates idolatry.

(SEE 18:26)

Josiah desecrated the altars that King Solomon had built east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Olives, for the worship of disgusting idols---Astarte the goddess of Sidon, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Molech the god of Ammon.